“Equity” is a sacred concept among liberals. Oregon demonstrates what happens when you apply it to education:

Oregon school chiefs have again suspended the need for high schoolers to prove their math, reading and writing skills in order to graduate.

The State Board of Education voted [unanimously] last week to continue the suspension for another five years amid claims they are unfair on minority students who don’t test well.

To achieve a perfectly manicured lawn, see to it that not a single blade grows higher than the shortest blade.

In order to earn a diploma, graduating students were previously required to earn standardized test scores indicating proficiency in reading, writing and math.

But this was put on pause during the pandemic as standardized tests weren’t happening amid school closures.

As Jane Fonda put it, Covid was “God’s gift to the left.” It allowed progressives to put various aspects of their agenda into overdrive. Liberalism works like a ratchet; once they have gained ground on whatever pretext, they keep it.

Those who think students should learn are denounced as racists:

Board Chair Guadalupe Martinez Zapata … likened ‘rhetoric about cultural and social norms being the underlying reason for underperformance on assessments by systemically marginalized students’ to ‘racial superiority arguments.’

The three R’s have been discarded in favor of DEI. You don’t need reading or math skills under Bidenomics. You just need to know which party to vote for to keep your EBT card loaded.

On tips from Ed McAninch and Jack D.

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